WITHDRAWN: Opening Pathways to University and the Assurance of Standards: Results of a German Detracking Reform

• In Event: 77.053 - School Reform and Improvement

Abstract

The study presented here focuses on the effects of a recently conducted large scale (between school) detracking reform of the secondary school system in Berlin, Germany. A central objective of the reform was to increase the proportion of students acquiring the university entrance diploma (“Abitur”) in the non-academic schools. Indeed, the study results revealed a strong increase of students in the non-academic schools from 23 to 41 percent, who acquired the entrance certificate for the upper secondary school level at the end of grade 10, which leads to the Abitur. However, this increase did not go hand in hand with a corresponding increase in achievement. This raises questions regarding the assurance of achievement- and evaluation standards in the non-academic schools.

Authors

• Marko Neumann, DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education

• Jürgen Baumert, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

• Susanne Radmann, German Institute for International Educational Research

• Michael Becker, German Institute for International Educational Research

• Kai Maaz